REFLECTION....

Wow!!! my last blog.... well first of all i would like to say that i did enjoy this assignment, even though sometimes i fell behind or struggled over all I'm glad i had the opportunity to do this! I learned so much on teen age pregnancy with every blog i posted.
I am very happy that i chose teenage pregnancy as my topic! i learned so many facts that made me realize how ignorant i was on this topic, and still am. I realized all the problems that come from teenage pregnancy, and how even the government is affected by it. I also learned that being a teen mother is even harder than i thought, there are so many expenses that u have to make, and even with help from the government it is very difficult to provide your child with a good future if your a teen mom. Also i learned that most of teen mothers are left by the father and eventually become single parents, and if they do stay with the father they rarely get married.
Something that i would have done differently would be to make my research more broad. I would have liked to look into abortion, adoption, and birth control. I believe that all those things have a lot to do with teen pregnancy and would have helped me gain more knowledge. Other than that i was pretty satisfied with what i did and what i learned.
If i were to chose one post out all of the ones i did it would diffidently be the survey post. why? Because i learned the most from that post, i learned what opinions from boy, girls, students, and even teachers! Their answers really surprised and shocked me. I did however really like Kathy Williams' response to one of my questions... i asked her why she thought teens had sexual intercourse and she responded "Your hormones start erupting during adolescents so you have a physical desire even though you know its not right, but then you get pressure by friends, and the media is attacking teens by music, movies, and TV by showing a lot of sexual activity so that makes your sexual desire stronger. most teens want to do what they see on TV." i really liked her response because i really agree with her answer!
The hardest part for me was writing the posts... since i always wrote about the same topic i felt as if i was always repeating my self. It became difficult for me towards the end to write about things i hadn't already said. i really felt that i just kept on saying the same thing over and over. The most difficult blog for me was the one on the great debate. This was because i had a hard time finding a great debate... i found plenty but none that really grabbed my attention. At the end i just chose the first one i found because i got tired of looking for the one i liked.
Ironically the easiest part for me was writing the posts. Event though i felt like i was repeating my self, with every blog i was assigned to write i learned something knew that i was sure would be new to the person reading the blog as well. Every blog made me expand my research and learn a new fact. Some of the blogs were difficult but for the most part they weren't that hard. My favorite and easiest blog that i wrote was the poem... even though i struggled coming up with it i enjoyed spending time writing it. I have always like poetry so writing a poem of my own really made the assignment easy and entertaining for me. I did however have problems making the poem make sense and rhyme at the same time. But over all i really enjoyed writing it! It was diffidently my favorite blog!!
Through this topic i learned a lot!! But what got to me the most was when i was looking at some abortion pictures on Google. The pictures brought both anger and sadness to me. Anger for the mothers that decide to abort their child and sadness for the poor little creatures being tortured for something that they had nothing to do with. The way these children are killed is horrible and cruel! What i was really surprised to learn was that babies start developing earlier that 3 months. You see when i first began with this blog i thought that children don't start developing until 3 months of pregnancy, and that is not true. In the pictures that i saw was a picture of an 8 week abortion and u could clearly see the babies body parts. Such as the arms, the legs, the head, and even the fingers!!! this really shocked me!!! through this assignment i learned a lot about teenage pregnancy and i am thankful for having the chance of doing this. i would do this all over again with out thinking it twice this was such a great experience for me and i feel as if my writing improved so much by this!! witch really makes me happy!!